Paulina Porizkova Talks About Former Drug Addiction
She was one of the biggest supermodels of her decade, and little has been heard of her professionally since she stopped making calendars and doing swimsuit shoots on island beaches, but Paulina Porizkova has been doing quite a bit in the past few years. Now 46 years old, the supermodel has been taking interviews and discussing the drug addiction that plagued her – not just in her youth but in recent years, as well.
Her addiction? To anti-depressants. Now, many in the medical community would debate whether or not it’s even possible to become addicted to anti-depressants. It’s not a common cause of patients seeking drug addiction treatment, but like anything else, if you feel that you can’t live without the drug, crave it when you stop taking it, and continue to take it in amounts that cause problems in other areas of your life and yet still can’t stop alone – then addiction is an issue and addiction treatment is a viable option.
For Paulina Porizkova, anti-depressant addiction is very real indeed. For her, the pinnacle of her struggle with depression that led to addictive use of anti-depressant medications was in 2007 and 2008. In 2007, he was on the reality show Dancing with the Stars for a brief period, and was the first contestant to be voted off the show. A year later, she was fired as a judge on the reality show America’s Next Top Model. Paulina was devastated.
Paulina says: “I had just gotten kicked off of Dancing with the Stars (as the first contestant) and my ego travelled back to ninth grade, when I was the least popular kid in school and just couldn’t figure out what I had done wrong to be so disliked…”
When Paulina sought help from her doctor, she received a prescription for Lexapro, an anti-anxiety medication that was meant to help her deal with her anxiety attacks. Unfortunately, she says that she soon found that she has developed a dependence. She couldn’t stop taking the drug despite the negative effect it had on her personal life with her husband – in fact, she describes her relationship with the drug like it was an affair that she had on her husband. Because she continued to choose the drug despite the fact that she felt sexually distanced from her husband, she says, “I felt emotionally Botoxed. I decided that this affair had all the drawbacks of an affair.”
Taking anti-anxiety medication like Xanax or Valium can ultimately end in addiction. If you feel that Xanax addiction or Valium addiction has become a problem for you or if you need help breaking free from any drug of dependence, contact us at Michael’s House today for information about our drug rehab programs.
